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In the first in a series of articles delving into VR design, nDream's Patrick O'Luanaigh discusses the importance of player position in virtual experiences

The creator of Super Smash Bros has accused rival publishers of withholding content from their games so it can be sold at an additional cost for more profit. Gamasutra reports that Masahiro Sakurai told Famitsu, as translated by Source Gaming, that publishers’ modern day DLC strategies are betraying consumers. These …

Devs will once again fight for intellectual superiority on June 10th

Ex-DICE dev and former Paradox mobile VP create ‘unpublisher’ for indie games

Capcom has revealed that its recent reworking of survival horror classic Resident Evil has been a strong seller. Specifically, the game has sold over 1m units worldwide since its release on January 20th. This is in part because the dev team made a great product, but also because of the …

EA’s upcoming golf title Rory McIlroy PGA Tour won’t be coming out in its previously announced June release window. Instead the sports game will be coming out on July 14th.This is the same week as the Open Championship 2015 in St Andrews. It’s yet to be revealed if this is …

COO resigns from social gaming firm to join engine creator as marketing chief

Facebook maintains that pioneering VR headset is "very much in the development stage"

Acclaimed creators of episodic games now has access to hugely popular comic universe

Microsoft sold 1.6m Xbox consoles for three months ending March 31st, a drop of 400,000 year-on-year. That number includes Xbox 360 and Xbox One sales, and the platform holder has not split out the performance of these machines. This performance meant that Xbox revenue was down 24 per cent year-on-year …